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Police divers from the RCMP’s E Division search the Battle River near Big Knife Provincial Park on Saturday, July 26, as part of “an ongoing investigation.” ECA Review/J. Webster
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Review Reporter RCMP divers recovered “items of particular interest” from the Battle River on the July 26-27 weekend, but police refused to identify what case they were investigating near the Big Knife Provincial Park. A dive team from the RCMP’s E Division in British Columbia spent the weekend combing the Battle River, Staff-Sgt. Ron Campbell of Alberta’s K Division confirmed July 28. “That was just the continuation of an ongoing investigation,” he said.
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Veteran news ........................... 2 Coronation news ...................... 2 Obituary ................................... 2 RCMP ....................................... 3 Castor news.............................. 3 Stettler news ............................ 3 Sports...................................5 - 7 Agriculture ............................... 8 Classifieds/Careers ............ 9 - 11 Professional Directory .............. 9 Oyen news ............................. 12 Business Directory ................. 12
“It’s been going on for several months. “They were looking for items of particular interest, which I can say some were located, but I can’t reveal what those were.” Police wouldn’t say whether the river search was part of the investigation into the Klaus family farm triple murder near Castor last December. “It’s an ongoing investigation, and I’m not going to identify which one it is at this point, to protect the integrity of the investigation,” said Staff-Sgt. Campbell, the head of the strategic communications unit for K Division.
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He revealed, however, that RCMP are close to making “a major announcement” in connection with the dive team’s findings.
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“I was speaking with one of the investigators today and they plan on going public here probably within two weeks,” Staff-Sgt. Campbell said. “They’ll have a major announcement at that time. They’re just trying to put the pieces together here now. They should be ready in a couple of weeks to go public with what they found and why, and what it’s related to and all that stuff.” E Division divers spent “two or
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three days over the weekend” searching the Battle River, Staff-Sgt. Campbell said. Three members of one Castor-area family — Gordon and Sandra Klaus and their adult daughter Monica — perished in a house fire at the Klaus farm Dec. 8, 2013. In February 2014, police said they believe the deaths were homicides, but they didn’t make any charges in the case. RCMP confirmed at the time that the remains of Gordon Klaus, 61, and Monica Klaus, 40, were found in the burnt-out house, but that the remains for Sandra Klaus, 62, hadn’t been located.
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